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Samuel Johnson: The Dictionary Man

Plot: Drama-documentary telling the story of Samuel Johnson's creation of the first English dictionary, in an attic room just off Fleet Street in Georgian London. The depressive writer-for-hire with Tourette's syndrome did for the English language what Newton had done for the stars, classifying words, fixing their meaning and bringing order to the chaos of language
Release Date: Thursday, June 1 2006
18 years ago
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